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The Fox News Rundown

Global Pandemic: Antibodies Test Will Help Against Second Wave

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Countries around the world are buying antibody tests to figure out how many of their citizens were infected with Covid-19 with the idea it can help strategize against a second wave of the virus. Tel Aviv University is working the Israeli Defense Force soldiers to detect antibodies and the country's immune response to the coronavirus. FOX's Trey Yingst spoke with Professor Ariel Munitz and Professor Motti Gerlic, of Tel Aviv University, who are both working to develop a better test for Covid-19 antibodies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Monday, May 25,, 2020, I'm Trey Inks.

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An Israeli university team is conducting a coronavirus antibody test

0:30.0

that could soon be used on thousands of people each day.

0:33.0

So we can see that you have severe cases with high antibodies and you have

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and the opposite, you can have very mild cases with high antibody tithe.

0:42.0

So it's too early to say we need big numbers of patients

0:46.4

and this is effort all over the world to understand

0:49.4

if the antibody correlates with the disease severity.

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This is the Fox News rundown, global pandemic.

0:59.0

Countries are reopening for business in the wake of COVID-19, but with concerns about a second

1:04.4

wave, there is a need for extensive data on how widespread coronavirus infections actually

1:09.6

were.

1:10.6

Antibody testing is one way for scientists to determine who had the virus and may hold immunity if cases spike again in the future.

1:17.6

Over the next few minutes you'll get the latest headlines on the global COVID-19 outbreak and hear from Professoressors Moti Gerlitz and Arile Munitz who currently

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